Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP

[Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@gmail.com>]

On May 15, 2012, at 11:26 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:35:53 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou said:
> 
>> Thermal management: How to distribute load to the processors in such
>> a way that the temperature of the die doesn't increase too much that
>> we have to either go to a lower OPP or shut down the core all-together.
>> This is in direct conflict with throughput since we'd have better performance
>> if we could keep the same warmed-up cpu going.
> 
> It's not just "temperature of the die".  When you have multiple aisles of 42U
> racks full of servers, you often hit "must keep average total BTU load per
> server below X" constraints.  There's plenty of colo's that are only using 40%
> of their floor space due to cooling constraints (you may be able to get the
> power company to pull another megawatt of copper into the building, but then
> you need to find someplace to put another megawatt worth of cooling).
> 

Interesting,

Never thought about that... 

-- Pantelis